Abortion rates and crime

Steven Levitt has postulated that abortion rates are linked to future crime rates:

The logic is simple: unwanted children have an increased risk of growing up to be criminals, and legalized abortion reduces the number of unwanted children. Consequently, legalized abortion lowers crime in the future.

So, what does today’s declining abortion rate mean to crime in the future?

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Anonymous
It will mean that the U.S. Armed Forces will not have any problem recruiting 18 to 20 years from now.
Anonymous
The assertion that unwanted children are more likely to be criminals is unproven and an unwarranted assumption. Logic has little to do with human behavior in the first place and ignores all the confounding associated ramifications in the second place.
For example, it is commonly thought in many parts of the country that illegal immigration contributes to crime rates directly be the introduction of migratory essentially homeless males into the community or just by creating social instability and increased competition for work.
But the reason that we have illegal immigration is that we have more jobs than we have workers. Yes, Virginia, we don’t have enough unskilled high-school drop outs to do all the unskilled jobs that our economy is generating.
Which is a result of an inadequate birth rate which is in part due to a high rate of abortion. Nature–and labor markets abhor a vacumn. We created one and so it is being filled even in the face of legal sanctions by those born elsewhere.
Crime is clearly connected statistically to children raised in single parent families, but that number has not improved since abortion became widely legal in ’74. Does the availability of abortion reduce the obligation of sperm donors to marry recipients and support the children? If it does than it may work to increase crime.
And although those folks who want every child to be planned need to think twice about what they wish for. Planned, in wedlock pregnancies are not sufficient to replace the population, what with the modern women thinking she has better things to do. The nation would collapse if lust and poor impulse control weren’t filling the gap being left by the desertion of family values for material acquisition.
So be gracious to those pregnant single young women–on them rests the future solvency of social security

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